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The Finnish Literature Society (SKS), established in 1831, is a learned society. SKS is the oldest Finnish publisher still in operation and the largest humanities scholarly publisher in the country.
Visit the Finnish Literature Society’s website to find out more about SKS as a society as well as a publisher.
SKS publishes circa twenty peer-reviewed academic volumes from the field of humanities. The Studia Fennica series, published in English, includes works from the fields of anthropology, ethnology, folklore studies, history, literature and linguistics. Scholarly literature financing decisions are the responsibility of the SKS publishing committee. Decisions are based on peer reviews.
In addition to scholarly literature, SKS publishes general non-fiction books through its publishing company SKS Kirjat.
All SKS academic publications are published for open access under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND license. To further their discoverability, they will also be added to the OAPEN Library as well as the Directory of Open Access Books.
The SKS sales and marketing team makes sure that a new book’s pre-release and product information is available in publishing systems that are used by merchants and stockists alike. SKS books are available at well-equipped book stores, both brick-and-mortar and online. Thanks to library exchanges, our books are widely available in various libraries all around the world.
SKS also has its own online store. SKS’ publisher store is bookstore Tiedekirja in Helsinki.
SKS publishes a list of the current year’s books every spring. The list also includes books published in academic series of SKS. This publishing list is distributed to the media, book stores and libraries. Information on each new book is distributed on SKS’ social media channels. Once an academic book has been released, its press realease is sent to thematic academic media outlets as well as to the universities. SKS follows up on its books’ reception and archives their related reviews.
Review copy requests: vapaakappaleet@finlit.fi
SKS is happy to accept ideas or complete manuscripts on general non-fiction or scholarly literature.
Instructions for general non-fiction manuscript or idea submissions
Instructions for academic manuscript or book idea submissions